Your technology needs help... lots of help... lots and LOTS of help. :(

The horse is on the ground dude, why do you and others with more talent and skill keep kicking it. Help a game with a pulse, one that wants to live.

EA has made what they're going to make. They're praying for 6 more months of sustainability before it STARTS costing them money to operate this piece.

You're obviously extremely skilled in the area programming. Don't waste your breathe on the Hero Engine. Unreal and Crysis engines will always reign superior and there isn't a single BW employee with your depth of knowledge otherwise, this thing wouldn't have released as bad as it did, as STILL is after the -

"Largest patch in MMO history"

3 other major games make fun BW's statement openly in chat, it's comical. If wal-mart were an engineering company, the Hero Engine would be it's flagship. Period.

Just feeling you out.

Why are you obsessing over process queuing? I'm speaking, exclusively, about disk i/o and network i/o, the two slowest resources on the average computer. The processor suffers from potential starvation when adding disk and network wait times, which I never said was the issue.

I'm not sure where you thought I did say that.

It's not situational. The -entire- game loop -stops- when reading from disk.

Reading from disk is not an FTL operation yet. It takes time to find and assemble that data. And the entire game loop comes to a -dead halt- when that data is being read from a call in HeroScript.

It has nothing to do with process queues or CPUs or threads or anything. It is strictly how the application was structured to "simplify" maintaining game logic.

Some people continue to kick said horse because they have the smallest hope that maybe, just maybe, the problems will be fixed and the game will flourish.

And then there are those of us who see through pessimistic crap and realize the game is already flourishing.

Okay... I understand now. Enough said.

The Hero Engine doesn't just automatically stop when it needs to read from the disk. It stops only if there is a latency with reading from the disk.

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Again:

"The HeroMachine (virtual machine in charge of running HeroScript) processes HeroScript synchronously where one instruction must complete its operation before the next one may be started. "

The request for the resource not only waits until it can access the resource, but the time it takes to find and gather those resources? Yeah, it's waiting there, too. -Every- call to a disk has latency. While it's pulling data, the game loop stops.

Hardware? Nah, it's a matter of watching your software, really. There's so much crap that you can inadvertently cause your processor to sweat it's not even funny. And make no mistake, we're talking about a processor issue here.

However, we cannot fault BW for creating a game that's next-gen, while "cutting the fat" for now to work with what's currently available. I, for one, am glad to see an MMO that is so ready to be expanded upon. And I think OP is misinterpreting his data to mean that it's just processor-heavy with nowhere to go.

please explain to me how this modified, cheap, bad performing, ugly looking engine is any kind of next-gen. thank you.

The very fact that it's culled and wonky makes it appear "cheap, bad performing, ugly-looking". I haven't met a program yet that works at optimum when it's culled to work on low-tech.

I'm not employed, no. Just a realist who calls 'em like I see 'em.